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At the International Conservation Center (Pittsburgh Zoo) a biomass burner can dry, resize, store and burn elephant waste. It's a great alternative to the landfill. An elephant produces 100-125 pounds of poop a day. The burner can produce 2000 pounds a day.

Green Museums: Intro to Parts I-III (2014)

February 23, 2014by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Green like you’ve never seen Pittsburgh is a great place to debut the new Green Museums series, with stories and best green practices from a spectrum of botanic gardens, museums, history […]

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Architecture, Cities, Green Practices, Museums
Aerial picture of reclamation site

Green Museums (Part III): Pittsburgh Botanic Garden

February 23, 2014by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Imagine a 460-acre parcel that has been deep mined, surface mined, farmed by several generations,  and abandoned. Now, after more than a decade of brownfields reclamation and remediation, the place […]

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Gardens, Green Practices, Museums, Sustainability
Dinosaurs in their Time at the Carnegie Natural History Museum.

Green Museums: Part 2 Pittsburgh’s Innovators

August 29, 2013by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

In Part 2 of the Green Museums series, we feature a half-dozen Pittsburgh museums that are embedding green values and practices in how they operate and, as a result, are […]

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Architecture, Green Practices, Museums, Sustainability

Green Museums: Intro

June 13, 2013by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Green like you’ve never seen Pittsburgh is a great place to debut the new Green Museums series, with stories and best practices from a spectrum of botanic gardens, museums, history and science […]

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Architecture, Cities, Gardens, Green Practices, Museums

Green Museums Pittsburgh Innovators (Part I)

June 13, 2013by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

The Green Museums series debuts in Pittsburgh with the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh (CMP), Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens (“Phipps”), and the Heinz History Center, a Smithsonian affiliate (“Heinz”).   […]

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Architecture, Green Practices, Museums

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